One of the faulty copies of the Christian Science gospel, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, came up for auction sale in Manhattan last week. It was a first (1875) edition and contained many printer's errors. Mary Baker Eddy knew of 66. Economical, she disliked reprinting the whole volume; honest she listed the errata on a separate leaf. Because one of these errata leaves was in the book offered for sale last week,
Mrs. C. Bigelow of Manhattan paid $725 for it.
Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy (1821-1910) twice widowed, once...
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